Sadly, the rhetoric has not changed since the Civil War as procurement fraud is daily news today as it was during the 1860s. Bottom line: as in the day of Lincoln, when there is a war, there are those who seek to be war profiteers. The purpose of this update is to examine how the combined forces of the government's civil, criminal, and administrative fraud fighters, along with private citizen whistleblowers, held defense contractors accountable this past year and how the mission to fight fraud continues to evolve. An important practical tip for the government contracts practitioner to keep his eye on all False Claims Act (FCA) developments, not just cases involving the Department of Defense (DoD), as the courts rarely draw a distinction between the two.
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